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The form of forced labor of African Americans in the South

before the Civil War

What is slavery?

The invention in the 1790s that separated the cotton fibers from

the seeds

What is the cotton gin?

The economy based on cotton as the cash crop and slavery as the

labor system

What is the economy of the South?

The main cash crop of the South before the Civil War

What is cotton?

The economic system of a large farm growing cash crops and

farmed with slave labor

What is the plantation system?

An economic system in which both agriculture and industry are

important

What is a mixed economy?

The place where machines manufactured products for sale

What is a factory?

The manufacture and production of goods

What is industry?

Replacing a broken part with an exact duplicate of the part

What are interchangeable parts?

The practical use of scientific discoveries

What is technology?

Used steam engines and tracks to move people and goods

across the land

What is the railroad?

The movement of people and goods across land and water

What is transportation?

The form of water transportation that used the steam engine to

sail up the river

What is the steamboat?

An all-weather road that is paid for by taxation or tolls on the

travelers

What is the turnpike?

A narrow man-made water way used to transport people and goods

What is a canal?

The factors related to people like culture, government, language, religion, economy, education,

agriculture, and industry

What are human geographic features?

A place that has common human and geographic features

What is a region?

The natural features like landforms, water bodies,

topography, soil, atmosphere, climate, plants, animals, and

natural resources

What are physical geographic features?

How people are spread out over the land

What is population distribution?

How people live on the land and are distributed over space

What are settlement patterns?

A tax of duty on an import into a country

What is a tariff?

The government requiring the people to give it money to pay for

its operations

What is taxation?

The change from mostly farming to a society based on industry

and manufacturing

What is the Industrial Revolution?

A tax or duty on an import to protect a domestic industry of a

country

What is a protective tariff?

The lending institution charted by the United States to regulate

money and state banks

What are the Banks of the United States?

An economy where people are free to produce what they can and buy what they can afford

What is the free enterprise system?

The production of goods and products in factories by machines

What is industrialization?

A new way of doing things that is based on a technology

What is a technological innovation?

The growth of cities caused by movement from rural areas to

urban areas

What is urbanization?

A new way of doing things

What is an innovation?